Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts Fast Forwarding the Future
Applications are now open for the B.F.A. in Emerging Media Arts for fall 2021 enrollment.
Prepare for careers in
filmmaking, game design, special effects, app development, theme park experiences, virtual reality, and animation.
Learn creative coding, sonic and sensory media, wearable technology and writing across media. Build your own company and start your own career in one of the pre-eminent emerging media arts programs in the country.
The Nebraska Value
More value. More from your degree.
Nebraska offers you one of the best value college experiences out there. Among the lowest tuition in the Big Ten; 65% of first-year students receive institutional grants or scholarships.*
*National Center for Education Statistics
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About Us
We are looking for self-motivated, young people from all over the world who are creative builders—who write novels and short stories, who make movies, who build apps, who create video games, who write comic books and graphic novels, who build 3-D models, who create puzzles and who contribute to open-source software projects, and more. Our unique program creates “X-shaped graduates” who understand design, story, entrepreneurship and code. These core competencies give them ownership over their future and allow them to thrive in a changing, diverse, global environment.
Emerging Media Arts student organizing online concert event
Lincoln, Neb.--Sydney Peters, a sophomore emerging media arts student in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, is organizing an online music event on Jan. 26, 2021.
Carson Center’s STORY CITY can be experienced throughout Lincoln
Lincoln, Neb.--Take a walk downtown, in the Haymarket or across Lincoln and experience the geolocative STORY CITY projects created by first-year students in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts’ Story Lab course this semester.
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For more information or questions about the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts:
Megan McMasters, Director of Operations
megan.mcmasters@unl.edu